Ericsson and Vodafone Announce Partnership Ericsson and Vodafone announced a five-year strategic partnership to modernize Vodafone’s network footprint using Ericsson’s high-performing programmable network solutions across several key markets. |
Nokia Extends Partnership With Vodafone and Vodacom Nokia announced that it has maintained its role as Vodafone’s strategic partner in Europe and Africa as part of Vodafone’s five-year radio access network investment programme. The deal follows Nokia’s recent RAN agreement with VodafoneThree, part of the largest privately funded telecommunications infrastructure project in Europe. The move supports Vodafone’s ambitions to deliver next-generation connectivity across Europe and Africa, enabling an inclusive and sustainable digital society. |
Cisco Releases AI Research Cisco announced the release of the results from the third annual Cisco AI Readiness Index. A small but consistent group of companies surveyed, the Pacesetters, about 13% of organizations for the last three years, outperform their peers across every measure of AI value, captured for the first time in Cisco’s global study of over 8,000 AI leaders across 30 markets and 26 industries. |
Adtran Launches Mosaic One Clarity Adtran announced the launch of Mosaic One Clarity, a new artificial intelligence solution designed to help service providers simplify network operations and improve efficiency. Built on Adtran’s REAL AI platform, the new Mosaic One module is already in several customer trials. |
Cloudflare Collaborates with Leading Payments Companies Cloudflare announced that it is working with the world’s largest payments companies to create an authentication layer for agentic commerce. This industry-wide collaboration leverages the Web Bot Auth protocol, enabling AI agents to shop at millions of merchants globally. |
SOLiD Unveils BARS Enterprise-grade In-building Connectivity for Middleprise The SOLiD BARS solution simplifies the delivery of enterprise-grade connectivity over quick and easy-to-install Ethernet infrastructure to small, aesthetically pleasing, remote units (RUs) installed throughout the building, providing quality coverage that just works. |
Oracle and Duality Deliver Privacy-First AI Oracle announced that Duality Technologies secure data collaboration platform is now available in Oracle Cloud Marketplace and deployable on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This enables government, defense, and intelligence customers to secure their data collaboration for mission-critical operations with OCI’s built-in security and interoperability across specialized government, sovereign, and classified cloud environments, including Oracle Cloud Isolated Regions. |
Oracle Unveils New Defense Members Oracle announced the second cohort of the Oracle Defense Ecosystem, a pioneering global initiative designed to accelerate technological innovation and strengthen the capabilities of the defense community across the United States and allied nations. Established in June 2025, the Oracle Defense Ecosystem brings together leading startups, scale-ups, and established enterprises to drive AI and cyber innovation and enhance national security. |
Oracle Collaborates with SoftBank Oracle and SoftBank announced that they are collaborating to provide secure, compliant, and scalable sovereign cloud and AI services to organizations in Japan. To support critical infrastructure sectors, SoftBank will launch its new Cloud PF Type A, a suite of its own proprietary cloud and AI services powered by Oracle Alloy for the Japanese market. AI services will be introduced in phases, driving innovation and growth across Japan’s digital economy. |
NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet Powers Meta and Oracle NVIDIA announced that Meta and Oracle will boost their AI data center networks with NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking switches. |
Ericsson and e& Enter Multi-Year Agreement Ericsson and e& announced that they have entered a multi-year agreement to upgrade e& UAE’s 5G Core Network by deploying Ericsson’s advanced cloud-native technologies. |
Nokia Introduces New High-Capacity Shelves Nokia announced the launch of its new carrier-grade 1830 Photonic Service Switch-High Capacity shelves, a next-generation addition to the 1830 PSS family, one of the most widely deployed optical transport platforms globally. The new shelves deliver up to three times higher density with up to 60% lower power consumption per bit, enabling service providers to scale their networks more cost-effectively. |
Nokia Unveils Mobile Broadband Index Report 2025 Nokia announced the latest edition of its Mobile Broadband Index Report 2025, which provides an in-depth analysis of the evolving mobile broadband ecosystem across the Middle East and Africa region. |
Cloudflare Channel Business Accelerates Cloudflare announced the acceleration of its channel business with new solution bundles across its platform for partners. |
Cloudflare Integrates Services with Oracle Cloud Cloudflare announced that its connectivity cloud platform will be available natively on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for customers worldwide. This will enable joint customers to leverage Cloudflare’s security, performance, and resiliency directly from OCI across hybrid, multicloud, and OCI hosted applications. |
Fortinet Annual Report Indicates AI Skillsets Critical Fortinet announced the release of its 2025 Global Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, shedding light on the new and persistent challenges organizations face due to the cybersecurity skills gap. |
OpenVPN Unveils Access Server 3.0 OpenVPN announced the release of Access Server 3.0, a major update to its self-hosted business VPN solution that delivers foundational improvements to performance, flexibility, and system integration, marking a new era for the platform. |
Echelon Emerges from Stealth Echelon announced that it has emerged from stealth and has raised $4.75 million in seed funding led by Bain Capital Ventures. Its AI agents compress ServiceNow implementations from months to days, replacing the need for offshore developers that have made enterprise IT rollouts slow, expensive and often unreliable. Additional investors include leading angels and executives from Anthropic, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Meta, Atlassian and PagerDuty. |
Nextlink Internet Expands Middle Mile and Data Center Capabilities IP Infusion announced that Nextlink Internet, a fast-growing Internet Service Provider serving the rural heartland of America, has deployed IP Infusion’s OcNOS Service Provider and Data Center software running on Edgecore hardware in production across key areas of its middle mile and data center infrastructure. |
Microsoft Azure Unveils NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Microsoft Azure announced the new NDv6 GB300 VM series, delivering the industry’s first supercomputing-scale production cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, purpose-built for OpenAI’s most demanding AI inference workloads. |
Great Plains Communications Deploys Ciena Coherent Routing Solutions Great Plains Communications announced that they have collaborated with Ciena to upgrade its carrier backbone and transport networks in Illinois and Indiana. |
Zenlayer Launches Distributed Inference Zenlayer announced the launch of Zenlayer Distributed Inference at Tech Week , Cloud & AI Infra Show in Singapore, a one-stop, instant deployment platform built to power high-performance AI inference on a massive global scale. |
Xray Launches Test Capabilities Xray announced the launch of AI-powered testing capabilities, a new suite of human-in-the-loop intelligence features powered by the Sembi IQ platform. |
5G Americas Publishes White Paper 5G Americas announced the publication of its latest white paper, Enabling Intent-Based Autonomous Networks, which explores how telecom operators can harness AI-driven, self-configuring, and self-healing systems to meet the rising complexity of 5G, AI, IoT, and cloud-native services. This report highlights the technologies, standards, and strategies that enable Intent-Based Autonomous Networks to deliver scalable, resilient, and customer-centric connectivity. |
Patero and Calibr8 Systems Form Strategic Alliance Patero and Calibr8 Systems announced a strategic agreement to facilitate the migration of industrial data infrastructures in the Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area countries from pre- to post-quantum cryptography. |